Let us now ride down the Bowery, the broadest street in the city, and lined almost wholly with small retail shops. It leads us to Franklin Square, a small triangular space at the junction of Pearl and Cherry Streets. This, in the " olden time," was the fashionable quarter of the city, and was remarkable first for the great "Walton House, and a little later as the vicinity of the residence of "Washington during the first year of his administration as first President of the United States. That building was 'No. 10, Cherry Street. By the demolition of some houses

* Tlie chief operations of tile Institute (which Mr. Cooper calls "The Union") are free inslniction of classes in science and the useful arts, and free lectures. The first and second stories are rented, the proceeds of which are devoted to defraying the expenses of the establishment. In tlie basement is a lecture-room 125 feet bj' 82 feet, and 21 feet in height. The three upper stories are arranged for purposes of instruction. There is a large hall, with a gallerj-, designed for a free Public Exchange.

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between it and Franklin Square, it formed a front on that open space. In 1856, the Bowery was continued from Chatham Square to Franklin Square, when this and adjacent buildings were demolished, and larger edifices erected on their sites. There Washington held his first levees, and there Mr. Hammond, the first resident minister from England sent to the new llepublic, was received by the chief magistrate of the Eepublic.